Maria Kouvarou
Biographic Data
| ID | 326363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Kouvarou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kouvarou |
| SIGNATURE | KOUVAROU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cyprus University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4063-2769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cosmopolitan localism as creative self-discovery
Since around 2005, an increasing number of songs have emerged in the Republic of Cyprus that use elements from the Greek Cypriot cultural heritage, like lyrics in Cypriot Greek, folk music features and other references to ‘tradition’. These songs belong to contemporary genres, including rock, metal, fusion and hip hop, genres that already existed in the country but became ‘localised’ in a different manner, owing to the socio-political context. Th…
A step back, a leap forward
In the contemporary Greek Cypriot popular music scape, we witness various and varying instances that feature cultural heritage elements: the frontman of a hard rock band performing in a vraka, the traditional male trousers; a trap song making references to lefkaritiko, a traditional lace; a metal band opening their album with an acapella tsiattisto, a traditional oral poetic style. This paper discusses these and other instances by placing them in…
Alternative Imaginaries of Cyprus
The article offers a close reading of music videos created in the Republic of Cyprus during the past two decades, focusing specifically on the ways the audiovisual texts represent space and (re)construct narratives in/of the Greek Cypriot context. Building on existing work in the area of lens-based media studies, namely cinema and photography, the article firstly examines how music videos co-exist and converse with other types of audiovisual repr…
(Re)claiming the Public Sphere
This article discusses hip-hop with lyrics in the Greek Cypriot Dialect as an underground voice of implicit dissent that becomes gradually noticeable in the Republic of Cyprus. By providing an overview of the complex linguistic situation of the country, it argues that the insistence of the hip-hop artists to “say it” in the linguistic idiom of their everyday communication can be seen as a (re)claiming of the public sphere. Habermas’ public sphere…
Live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus
This article discusses the development of a live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is the result of a 9 month field research project centred on a specific music venue and it is based on interviews with members of four local prominent rock bands and the venue manager. These interviews were further informed by several discussions with numerous audience members, the result of the author's participatory involvement in this network. The emphasis of…
Deconstructing the “Bodies”
The Sex Pistols were much more than music; they were all about image, style, and offensive attitude and behavior. In the light of a stereotypically masculine image that was originally attributed to the band, this article explores some of the covers of the Sex Pistols’ songs by female vocalists (Veruca Salt, Lady Sovereign, Nouvelle Vague) and talks about issues of musical translation in gender norms. Drawing on Irigaray's “parler femme” theories,…
American Rock with a European Twist
This paper assesses the practices developed in France, Italy, Greece, and Germany in order to accommodate rock’n’roll music and bring it closer to their own music styles and societal norms, as these are heard in the initial attempts of their music industries to create their own versions of it. The paper deals with these practices as instances of the French, German, Greek and Italian contexts to institutionalize rock’n’roll according to their posi…
(Re)claiming the Public Sphere
This article discusses hip-hop with lyrics in the Greek Cypriot Dialect as an underground voice of implicit dissent that becomes gradually noticeable in the Republic of Cyprus. By providing an overview of the complex linguistic situation of the country, it argues that the insistence of the hip-hop artists to “say it” in the linguistic idiom of their everyday communication can be seen as a (re)claiming of the public sphere. Habermas’ public sphere…
A step back, a leap forward
In the contemporary Greek Cypriot popular music scape, we witness various and varying instances that feature cultural heritage elements: the frontman of a hard rock band performing in a vraka, the traditional male trousers; a trap song making references to lefkaritiko, a traditional lace; a metal band opening their album with an acapella tsiattisto, a traditional oral poetic style. This paper discusses these and other instances by placing them in…
Live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus
This article discusses the development of a live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is the result of a 9 month field research project centred on a specific music venue and it is based on interviews with members of four local prominent rock bands and the venue manager. These interviews were further informed by several discussions with numerous audience members, the result of the author's participatory involvement in this network. The emphasis of…
American Rock with a European Twist
This paper assesses the practices developed in France, Italy, Greece, and Germany in order to accommodate rock’n’roll music and bring it closer to their own music styles and societal norms, as these are heard in the initial attempts of their music industries to create their own versions of it. The paper deals with these practices as instances of the French, German, Greek and Italian contexts to institutionalize rock’n’roll according to their posi…
Deconstructing the “Bodies”
The Sex Pistols were much more than music; they were all about image, style, and offensive attitude and behavior. In the light of a stereotypically masculine image that was originally attributed to the band, this article explores some of the covers of the Sex Pistols’ songs by female vocalists (Veruca Salt, Lady Sovereign, Nouvelle Vague) and talks about issues of musical translation in gender norms. Drawing on Irigaray's “parler femme” theories,…
American Rock with a European Twist
This paper assesses the practices developed in France, Italy, Greece, and Germany in order to accommodate rock’n’roll music and bring it closer to their own music styles and societal norms, as these are heard in the initial attempts of their music industries to create their own versions of it. The paper deals with these practices as instances of the French, German, Greek and Italian contexts to institutionalize rock’n’roll according to their posi…
Live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus
This article discusses the development of a live music network in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is the result of a 9 month field research project centred on a specific music venue and it is based on interviews with members of four local prominent rock bands and the venue manager. These interviews were further informed by several discussions with numerous audience members, the result of the author's participatory involvement in this network. The emphasis of…
(Re)claiming the Public Sphere
This article discusses hip-hop with lyrics in the Greek Cypriot Dialect as an underground voice of implicit dissent that becomes gradually noticeable in the Republic of Cyprus. By providing an overview of the complex linguistic situation of the country, it argues that the insistence of the hip-hop artists to “say it” in the linguistic idiom of their everyday communication can be seen as a (re)claiming of the public sphere. Habermas’ public sphere…
Cosmopolitan localism as creative self-discovery
Since around 2005, an increasing number of songs have emerged in the Republic of Cyprus that use elements from the Greek Cypriot cultural heritage, like lyrics in Cypriot Greek, folk music features and other references to ‘tradition’. These songs belong to contemporary genres, including rock, metal, fusion and hip hop, genres that already existed in the country but became ‘localised’ in a different manner, owing to the socio-political context. Th…
A step back, a leap forward
In the contemporary Greek Cypriot popular music scape, we witness various and varying instances that feature cultural heritage elements: the frontman of a hard rock band performing in a vraka, the traditional male trousers; a trap song making references to lefkaritiko, a traditional lace; a metal band opening their album with an acapella tsiattisto, a traditional oral poetic style. This paper discusses these and other instances by placing them in…
Alternative Imaginaries of Cyprus
The article offers a close reading of music videos created in the Republic of Cyprus during the past two decades, focusing specifically on the ways the audiovisual texts represent space and (re)construct narratives in/of the Greek Cypriot context. Building on existing work in the area of lens-based media studies, namely cinema and photography, the article firstly examines how music videos co-exist and converse with other types of audiovisual repr…
Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)